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Some random notes while I’m sitting in the screen savers production meeting…

Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, is coming on the Screen Savers, March 12. Should be interesting. But whatever you do, make sure you spell his name with two Ns! (Apparently he’s a little sensitive about the issue.)

Watch the Screen Savers tonight as we learn a new bit of tech jargon, “wall humping.” If you’ve got any other wacky tech jargon you’ve been hearing lately send me an email. I’ll include it on the show.

As you know I love 802.11b (now known as WiFi) wireless networking. In fact it’s become a running joke. I’ve always wondered why more places don’t put little Airport transmitters up for their customers – especially in Airports. Think of the promotion: Use Airport in the Airport!

Now there’s a town that’s planning to offer wireless Internet access to all 6,000 of its citizens. Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois started by wiring its campus. Now they’ve put an antenna on the library and they’re planning to wire the Courthouse and Municipal building later this week.

The SF Bay Area Wireless User Group is promoting public wireless access. They publish a list of access points in the Bay Area. I love this idea. Wireless Internet everywhere!

Anyone in their mid-20s or younger does not remember an internet not utterly dominated by today’s giant digital platforms. After all, the idea of having a full, unencumbered internet experience without ever needing a Google or Facebook account is pretty much inconceivable now. All ecommerce roads eventually lead back to Amazon. All your online activity […]

A former Nasa engineer spent six months building a glitter bomb trap to trick thieves after some parcels were stolen from his doorstep. The device, hidden in an Apple Homepod box, used four smartphones, a circuit board and 1lb (453g) of glitter.

In a blog post Monday, Google said it would lease a large office building at 550 Washington St. in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood and make it the centerpiece of its new 1.7 million-square-foot Hudson Square Campus. Google plans to invest $1 billion in capital improvements to the campus, which will also include two nearby buildings […]

France said at the start of December it would start taxing Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, the big US technology companies known as GAFA, if European Union finance ministers failed to agree on a bloc-wide digital tax next year.

Charter Communications, the parent company of Spectrum, has agreed to a $174.2 million settlement with Attorney General Barbara Underwood, following the 2017 lawsuit that saw the AG’s office sue the internet provider over misleading internet speeds. The lawsuit, led by then-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged that speeds were up to 80 percent slower than advertised.